One of my favorite pass
times.... solving puzzles... Be it mathematical, lateral thinking, analytical or
any type...

Sharing with you some of the puzzles..

Lateral Thinking

What is
lateral thinking?

A simple way
of explaining "lateral thinking" is thinking in a different perspective. Lets
take an example:

Q. If one
egg takes 5 minutes to boil, how much time will it take to boil 3 eggs?

A.
The immediate answer that would come is 15 minutes. Isn't that what you had
guessed? If not, you are a good lateral thinker :-) The answer to this is it
took just 5 minutes to boil 3 eggs. How? Can't it be boiled together?

1. Three
switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the
room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you are
only allowed to enter the room once?

2. What
comes once in June, once in July and twice in August?

3. Whilst in
a balloon floating stationary over the southern coast of India, I dropped two
wine bottles over the side. If one was empty and the other full, which hit the
ground first?

4. In a
race, if you overtake a person in second place, What position are you in?

5. In a
race, if you overtake the last person, what position are you in?

6. A father
and a son meet with an accident. Father dies on the spot. Son is taken to
nearest hospital. The doctor sees him and says "I can't operate him. He is my
son."

7. One day Kerry
celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry,
celebrated his birthday. How come?

8. Not far from Madrid,
there is a large wooden barn. The barn is completely empty except for a dead man
hanging from the middle of the central rafter. The rope around his neck is ten
feet long and his feet are three feet off the ground. The nearest wall is 20
feet away from the man. It is not possible to climb up the walls or along the
rafters. The man hanged himself. How did he do it?